1. What even is a consumer unit?

Where the electricity comes in to your home you'll find your meter and after the meter you will find your consumer unit. The consumer unit is the box that distributes electricity around your home and in larger properties you may have multiple consumer units. For example, you might have a separate garage consumer unit or perhaps a separate home office consumer unit. 
If you have a meter box on the wall outside your home, your consumer unit is often located close by on the inside but that's not always the case!

Oh, hello there! I'm your friendly registered electrician in Corsham, here to talk to you about something very important - electric shock first aid! Now, before we get started, I just want to say that I am by no means a doctor so if you or someone you know has sufferent from an electric shock, you should get medical attention right away.

1. One we bang on about a lot which is check your smoke alarms! Smoke alarms should be replaced every 10 years, batteries changed yearly, have the dust hoovered out every 6 months and the test button pressed every month! 
 

By single insulated cables we mean cables that either have had their outer sheath removed or cables that only have one layer of insulation. Most commonly in domestic properties your electrician in Bath and West Wiltshire will use twin and earth cable.

I've been tied about what I should create a blog about and I had a couple of options lined up, one on LED lighting where I was going to talk about the benefits on replacing halogens for LED and talk a bit about how LED lights work with an LED driver, another idea was to talk about RCD protection and why upgrading your fuseboard to include RCBOs and possibly a surge protective device is a great thing to do.